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This is my playground for poetry written for children with ideas and inspiration for writing your own poems. Come on in. Sit for a spell, have a cup of words to swirl around and make your own cup of poetry. I'm so glad you are here. I hope you'll find the Kingdom of Poetry a fun place to be.

Friday, October 21, 2011

My Eyes

I see the ocean.

I see a trees.

I see the wind

blowing with a breeze.

I see a bird

at the feeder eating seeds.

I see a hummingbird

getting what he needs.

I see a butterfly.

I see the sun.

With so many things to see

aren't I the lucky one?

Some eyes are blue,

green, hazel, or brown.

What is it you see

when you look around?

Aren't our eyes wonderful? The best thing I get to see is a smile on your face. Seeing is one of our five senses, and it is the one writers mention most in their writing. This is another poem you can play as a poetry game. Each person can take a turn and tell what they see, or what they use their eyes for. Make a list today of all the things you see. Can you shape your list into a poem? Or just use the list to write a free verse list poem. Hey, this could be cool. Start with the date for your title. Your first line would be "Things I saw today:" I'm sure you can come up with a great last line, but mine would be something like "This is what I saw, how about you?" What would someone know about you from the things on your list?

About Me

Joy Acey, the Princess of Poetry, has won many prizes for her poems. She published in Highlight's HIGH FIVE, and The Poetry Friday Anthologies. She is a performance artist and conducts writing workshops for children and adults. She’s hopped a freight train to ride in a boxcar over the world's second largest wooden trestle bridge. She was on a TV game show and won enough money for a trip to Australia. She has lived in England and Japan. She has walked across a volcano in Hawaii and a glacier in New Zealand. She has gone swimming with iguanas in the Galapagos and was in Ecuador during a revolution. She visited the rainforest in Peru, went on safari in Kenya and walked The Great Wall in China. Always looking for new adventures to write about, she currently lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her husband Jeffrey Frelinger, an immunologist. She has two grown sons and two fabulous daughters-in-law.